Leadership: Five things you need to do?
Writing in USA Today journalists, Alistair Barr and Scott Martin, suggest five things that Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, needs to do. This advice includes, embrace the cloud; free its software from Windows; fix mobile; woo developers and focus. It is not bad...
The madness of ‘EMEA’
I am sitting at a conference waiting for my turn to speak. Right now, there is a financial review of the year - by a fairly engaging CFO, as it happens. But one set of charts has reiterated something I have felt for a long time. This company represents their global...
Surfing the TIDES of Change – part 1
An introduction to a three part series looking at harnessing the power of the TIDES of change. The video considers the parallels with surfing and how we can use the surfing analogy and metaphor to "Surf the TIDES of Change". When we are confronted by ocean tides we...
3D printing rapidly approaching tipping point
We've been watching and tracking the implications of 3D printers and a disruptive force and innovation for over five years now. We've observed many exciting developments from the work of Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the...
Five secrets for engaging and retaining Gen Y talent
Studies show that the current crop of Gen Y talent, will have had up to 12 different jobs and the majority of Gen Y professional graduates (doctors, engineers, architects lawyers etc.) will no longer be working in their chosen career of study having had up to three...
Four lessons in leading people as a young entrepreneur
Three years ago I started DigitLab, and with it I began leading people. I wanted to lead a team instead of manage them. I believe that people are at their best when they are happy, challenged, inspired and a part of a bigger vision. I have always believed it - now...
The four horsemen of mediocrity, by Seth Godin
Seth Godin's blog today is superb. He is identified four key reasons that employees are disengaged, that productivity is declining or stagnant, and that companies struggle to innovate and develop. The four horsemen of mediocrity by Seth Godin Deniability--"They...
[Video] Keith presenting TIDES of Change
We live in turbulent times – that much is obvious. We are living at a moment in history when all the forces of change are combining to produce an era-changing period. The political, corporate, social and personal rules for success and failure are all being...
[Video] Keith presenting TIDES of Change
We live in turbulent times – that much is obvious. We are living at a moment in history when all the forces of change are combining to produce an era-changing period. The political, corporate, social and personal rules for success and failure are all being...
Gamification and your life
One of the trends TomorrowToday has been tracking for several years is that of Gamification. Simply put, this reflects that reality that just as social networking, search engines, and online media have changed the way we live, so too has the prevalence of computer...
Your next step: Thinking like a Futurist in 2014
It is that time of year again when everyone is having their say about the likely trends that will dominate or surface during the course of 2014. Recent editions of Time, Fortune and the Economist have all run lead articles looking into the crystal ball of 2014. It is...
A Crystal Ball for Business: 9 Tips for Future Success
As another year dawns and we turn our eyes to 2014, it’s still clear that we are living and working in an era of extreme uncertainty. A global recession continues and is combining with significant disruptive forces in technology, politics, economics, corporate...
Understanding different generations and why this is important.
We are living in a world of paradox, and leaders need to start developing frameworks to deal with this paradox; frameworks of understanding. Generational Theory helps us understand the value systems of each generation. Values drive behaviour and understanding the...
Understanding different generations and why this is important.
We are living in a world of paradox, and leaders need to start developing frameworks to deal with this paradox; frameworks of understanding. Generational Theory helps us understand the value systems of each generation. Values drive behaviour and understanding the...
Facts: Much to do about nothing – or quite the contrary?
‘Facts’ like statistics, can either be very insightful or actually prove to be somewhat unhelpful. Consider the following 10 facts: 88% of plane crashes occur in the first three minutes or the last eight minutes of a flight (reassuring as I am writing this in the...
Facts: Much to do about nothing – or quite the contrary?
‘Facts’ like statistics, can either be very insightful or actually prove to be somewhat unhelpful. Consider the following 10 facts: 88% of plane crashes occur in the first three minutes or the last eight minutes of a flight (reassuring as I am writing this in the...
[Video] Adaptive Challenges: Knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do
A short video clip [1.13min] from some work that Keith recently did with one of our clients talking about Adaptive Leadership. Leaders need to know what to do when they don't know what to do. Leaders need to be learners, and organisations need to be learning...
[Video] Adaptive Challenges: Knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do
A short video clip [1.13min] from some work that Keith recently did with one of our clients talking about Adaptive Leadership. Leaders need to know what to do when they don't know what to do. Leaders need to be learners, and organisations need to be learning...
New Year, New Start
New Year New Start… I won’t start with a ‘Happy New Year’ salutation as a recent online forum suggested January 11th is the last ‘official day’ to use that greeting – glad to hear that it was done online rather than a government sanctioned international select...
The Year of the Employee: Forbes’ predictions for 2014 talent, leadership and HR tech
Ian Turner, one of Duke CE's top MD's and leadership development programme experts gets credit for finding this interesting article and sending it on to me. There are some fascinating thoughts in Deloittes' predictions for 2014, published in Forbes, as they suggest...